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favorable to the production of the horse, and it 

 rich pastures and fine meadows afford the elements 

 for developing the finest forms and most enduring 

 constitutions, it is only by a judicious system of 

 breeding that to these two requisites of a good horse, 

 the third, that of speed, can be added. 



Our ideas of the system of breeding which should 

 be adopted in order to be successful, and the reasons 

 upon which they are founded, constitute our first 

 article. It contains no idle dogmas or worthless and 

 fantastic theories, calculated to lead the earnest and 



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Honest searcher for useful knowledge into gross errors 

 and mistakes, but rather a collection of rules, precepts, 

 and facts, deduced from long experience in and close 

 observation of all matters pertaining to the subject. 



While it is an undeniable fact that many fast trot- 

 ters have been bred and raised by persons who had no 

 'knowledge of these principles, yet if the pedigree of 

 such could be correctly traced, it would be found that 

 the breeders thereof have almost invariably conformed 

 unintentionally to these established rules, and that, 



